This has been a fairly unpopular opinion of mine for years. Just the other day I was at a social gathering where I overheard someone say "How is it that someone gets caught with a bag of heroin and only spends one night in jail, while another gets caught for petty larceny and gets three to six months?" To which I replied "One might argue that in the first case they are only hurting themselves, while in the second they caused harm to someone else." Several heads turned to me, a couple nodding absently, before they want on to discuss this "injustice." Thanks for this @doitvoluntarily. I am new to steemit and am adding you to my follow list ;)